Guild Wars 2

Matches are a week long.

Anyone can put up with a beating for a bit, but an entire week is more brutal than anyone wants.

Why don’t college football teams QQ more when they get blown out 90-3?? Because the game is only a few hours long not 24/7 for a week.

I’d personally love to see matches 28 hours long, 6 matches per week. Maybe even 3 matches of 56 hours each.

Every match would still cover all times zones so all players could play in each match. Blowouts would be tolerable. Match variety coming out yer kitten. Reset time would be different each match which would make things quite interesting. Upsets would be a lot more likely, since lead changes are far more common in the first couple days of a match and almost unheard of later in the week.

I’m speaking slightly out of turn here because the match I am currently in was basically a 3-way tie until yesterday, however that is the FIRST time I have ever seen anything like that happen. In all of WvW history, the farthest a matchup has ever gotten without a clear winner was Wednesday. 9 times out of 10 its decided over the weekend.

Anet – what is the reasoning behind keeping matches 1-week long at a time? Is there any possibility of revisiting this concept? Certainly it would be much easier than attempting to balance server populations…..

Solstice.1097:

Why don’t college football teams QQ more when they get blown out 90-3?? Because the game is only a few hours long not 24/7 for a week.

your example is completely irrelevant since both teams have the same number of players.

also, since when do college football teams(or any other sports team ever) not QQ about blowout games? There’s constant arguments about coaches “running up the score” and whether they should/could have prevented it.

Just look at all the hubbub surrounding the sharks/rangers massacre from this week.

yea yea bad example don’t miss the point bro.

your point is based in false info/ideas.

ex: “In all of WvW history, the farthest a matchup has ever gotten without a clear winner was Wednesday.”

There have been dozens of matches that still didn’t have a clear winner by Friday morning.

Were you around for the 24h matches? they were not well liked and had the same blowout problems.

It doesnt change anything. Having low wvw population means that your players will burn out if they play the ppt game. Lets say we go back to 24 hour matchups yes your server might now be able to win 3 or more matches but in the long run you will still lose way more matches. A server with low wvw pop doesnt have the buffer required to play the ppt game long term.

GrandmaFunk.3052:

Were you around for the 24h matches? they were not well liked and had the same blowout problems.

Were you? 24h matches started with everyone at the same rating, of course there were blowouts when rank 1 could be matched with rank 24. Also server transfers were still free, so there was huge instability. Plus the game was brand new then, the vast majority didn’t know how to play, and were too poor to buy things like flame rams.

Anyway I agree with OP, I thought 24h matches were great and they’d help ease a lot of the current issues in WvW.

I like the 3 matches of 56 hours each. Means other timezones will get to experience reset at their prime time.

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I guess I am mistaken and didn’t realize it was 24 once upon a time. But I think 24 is too short and reset shouldn’t always be at the same time. I lean towards 56 hours.

I also don’t see why anyone would argue that it normally takes a week to determine the winner. I have personally never seen anything stay close past wednesday but I am also just looking at NA I’ve never paid much attention to Europe.

IMO, the problem is not the length of the matches. The problem is the match-ups themselves.

You can’t justify having mid-tier servers matched against tier 1 and 2 servers. Same thing goes for bottom tier servers being matched against mid-tier servers.

The randomized match-ups have been consistently lopsided, and I doubt that would change no matter how long the match is.

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